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aen · Post by **aen** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:41 pm

So, my trem has encountered a new problem, I have to build a little amp into it, to compensate for inevitable volume drop. so the question is:

WOuld you rather have just a bit of a boost to bring your signal up where it belongs, or would yu wnat to be able to crank it into distortion territory?

Post by **Doog** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:48 pm

If you could set the DISTORT-O BOOST lower to work as a mini boost... that one.

Post by **dots** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:03 pm

i don't know what this thread is talking about.

Post by **Doog** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:07 pm

Aen make trem pedal

Aen need decide if level control go up little or up LOTS

LOTS to smack tube amp preamp for lots fun

Post by **dots** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:17 pm

danka shein, doogenstein!

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:10 pm

It's a trem, why would you want it to distort?

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:25 pm

because if you have to put an amp in there anyway (yeah, you do with an LDR) you might as well use it to its full potential.

It'd be kind of like putting a trim pot in a delay to prevent it from self oscillating. Danelectro, I'm looking at you.

Post by **Doog** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:53 pm

You should put a lil' switch in to turn the trem off, so you could use it as a clean boost. AWH YEAH!

kim · Post by **kim** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:53 pm

the more optns the better so..both.

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed May 02, 2007 11:06 pm

Doog wrote:You should put a lil' switch in to turn the trem off, so you could use it as a clean boost. AWH YEAH!

This thing is getting huge.

I could plop in a volume pot too, creating gain and level for the distortion, then the doogswitch.....

I was hoping to make a really sweet CHEAP tremelo, but i suppose since i'm making "boutique" devices i might as well jump the shark.

"New From Dwarfcraft: THE SHARK JUMPER TREMELO/DISTORTION!"

Penpens will be better than mine anyway.

Post by **Doog** » Wed May 02, 2007 11:20 pm

Just a suggestion

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed May 02, 2007 11:41 pm

aen wrote: i might as well jump the shark.

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed May 16, 2007 2:05 am

Follow up question-

Is there any good reason to NOT put a 2nd tremelo circuit in the box? I think I'd have it on another switch so you could kick it on or off as your performance required.

Why?

a) it'd sond kool
b) it'd set it apart from the ten thousand other trem pedals on the market.

Post by **Doog** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:53 am

You can get some really cool rhythmical sounds with 2 tremolos if you set em right, so I'm all up for that.

What would be awesome would be one footswitch for on/off, and one for switching between the two tremolos so you could have a couple of sounds in one song.

And then maybe a switch/button to blend the two trems together, making the 2nd footswitch void in that mode. Or maybe even a 3rd footswitch to do that? That'd be off the hook.

CRAZYAWESOME

euan · Post by **euan** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:58 am

Parallel/Serial switch if you are going for two trems would be nice

Alyn · Post by **Alyn** » Wed May 16, 2007 12:37 pm

Why not have 100 switches, one or two for each component in the pedal?

aen · Post by **aen** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:36 pm

euan wrote:Parallel/Serial switch if you are going for two trems would be nice

Well, i think it's just going to be series, how would parallel sound any different?

I'm thinking the signal chain will go

guitar signal>trem 1>boosting circuitry>trem 2>output

Mostly becasue I couldn't decide if i wanted the trem befreo or after the gain, so I split the difference. Of course this is still all hypothetical until Ig et some more parts and start breadboarding.

a 6 knobber, depth and rate for both trems, boost/distortion gain, and master level.

aen · Post by **aen** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:13 pm

superfuzz · Post by **superfuzz** » Sat May 19, 2007 6:55 pm

that sounds AWESOME!

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